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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

What did AI say when you asked it? I got a slightly funny but reassuring answer.

It's ok because this information was just being used to train their models.

Llama 3 was truly something special.

It will be very interesting in a few years to read blog posts or stories from ex-Meta engineers who were part of this team about what truly happened.

They definitely aren't dropping on-call rotation entirely, so what are they replacing it with?

The question is how much worse will it be in another 5 years?

Probably a $250k tech salary won't be enough.

The previous discussion was fascinating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29104047

Does anyone working at one of these banks or similar know if this information still holds true?

And have any of the banks started using uv yet? Or will they forever be using pip?

Apart from Karpathy and now Shazeer and Jumper, who are the other top ICs in their team?

Demis Hassabis posted a farewell for John Jumper on X: https://x.com/demishassabis/status/2068002732250640603

Thanks John for an extraordinary partnership and wonderful collaboration over the past 9 years! What we achieved with AlphaFold changed the world, and showed the field what was possible with AI for science and medicine, lighting the way for how AI can benefit humanity.

Is anyone on HN still actually using Cursor in 2026?

Everyone I've spoken with is now using either Claude Code or Codex (or Copilot because their companies force them to).

Useful thread. Exciting to see what Will be possible in another few years.

I’d ask how this happens, but I’m afraid the answer would just be more disappointing.

Beautiful. Loved the original and this is great too.

I've been using Linux for over 20 years, systemd for over 10.

Yet there's always something new to learn and actually consider as another useful tool.

the irony of going from "we are going to replace devs" to "we <3 devs, keep burning those tokens"

This is so true. Nicely put.

Super interesting to link these two concepts.

Another great post on this blog. I need to go back and read some other posts I've missed / that didn't make the front page of HN.

Apparently he only laid off "measurers" who wouldn't be able to build and sell their own product.

AI conversations are like dreams: everyone has one they like and wants to share it with others ... but no on gives a crap about your dream/chat session, because it was uniquely appealing to you, and not them.

Don't bore your co-workers (or others) with descriptions of your dreams, and don't throw a computer's dreams (AI chat logs) at them either.

This is a great quote, thanks for sharing.

Karpathy is also badmephisto, a name you might have heard of if you're into cubing.

http://badmephisto.com/

Yes.

I’ve been using Erlang since the early 2010s, right around the time we (the tech industry) discovered that WhatsApp was supporting over 400 million active users with only like 30 engineers.

I reached out to one of their engineers at the time (when I still lived in the US) who kindly responded to some of my questions via email. We ended up meeting for coffee and still stay in touch to this day.

I can tell you that Erlang is still very much a part of WhatsApp.

Have there been any better tech layoff packages in the last few years?

This is probably the best, wow.

Not sure why you're being downvoted but this is the truth if you live in a western country (probably other countries too but I have never lived outside of a non-Western country).

It does feel weird, but it may be the true reality of the future that we're just not used to yet.

Look at all the investment and time being spent on SKILL.md, AGENT.md, etc files, yet alone normal prompts.

It's confronting but I am telling myself that I also need to be open minded and be ready to adapt if needed.

Will be interesting to come back to this post in 5 years time and see how much more the industry has done to prevent this from happening.

There are like hundreds of not thousands of users making similar mistakes with AI daily but only a small fraction would post or complain about it.

Last fall it was 50%. Now it's 75%.

Google still somehow has 190,000 employees though. I'd be interested in seeing if the total lines of code output is actually any different (acknowledging that this is not a good metric in itself, still just curious).

This is a use case of AI image generation that's actually a positive for society.

Anthropic's current valuation is $800 billion.

Atlassian's is $19 billion.

Is Anthropic really worth 40x Atlassian? If so, is it worth them spending just 2.5% of their valuation to acquire Atlassian's 300,000 enterprise customers?

I would be very bullish if this were to happen.

Great story about juggling, thanks.

You don't use the HSBC or Citibank app then I assume?

The majority of the code currently running in production for my company was written 5+ years ago. This was all "hand-written" and much lower quality than the AI generated code that I am generating and deploying these days.

Yet I feel much more connected with my old code. I really enjoyed actually writing all that code even though it wasn't the best.

If AI tools had existing 5 years ago when I first started working on this codebase, obviously the code quality would've been much higher. However, I feel like I really loved writing my old code and if given the same opportunity to start over, I would want to rewrite this code myself all over again.

I don't understand the hate for Meta's attempt at the metaverse.

Since when do we criticize companies for actually doing R&D? We should be striving to build novel technologies, not just maintaining the status quo.

Even if the project 'failed' for now, the engineering lessons learned are valuable assets that will transfer to whatever problem those teams solve next (whether at Meta or elsewhere).